Climate change puts Bolivia's 'suicide home' shamans at risk

In Bolivia’s highland city of El Alto, the row of colorful corrugated metal roofs – blues, oranges, reds, and greens – for a moment distracts from the terrifying sight below: a precipitous drop inches from the houses, known locally as “suicide homes” for the high risk the inhabitants take. The thin row of flimsy structures hangs on the edge of a cliff formed of earth with a sheer drop hundreds of feet to the rocky escarpment below.